BARBOURVILLE, KY (April 12, 2007) --- The Milligan College softball team split a doubleheader with Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) opponent Union College by scores of 2-5 and 5-4 on Thursday in Barbourville, Ky. The split moves the Lady Buffs to 24-18 overall on the season and 4-4 in the AAC.

Game 1: Milligan 2 Union 5

Jennifer Wise (Clermont, Fla.) was 2-for-3 for Milligan and Heather Poindexter (Germanton, N.C.) and Mallory Tincher (Jacksonville, Fla.) were each 1-for-3 with a run scored, but a strong pitching performance from Union’s Sarah Driver held the Lady Buffs in check.

Kaila McSpedon was 3-for-3 with three RBI and two runs scored for the Union offense against Milligan pitcher Maegan Hambrick (Lexington, Ky.) who went the distance, allowing three earned runs on nine hits with one strikeout in the loss.

Game 2: Milligan 5 Union 4 (8 innings)

The Lady Buffs were able to force a split with an extra-inning win in game two of the doubleheader, spearheaded by Jessica Blevins’s (Elizabethton, Tenn.) 2-for-2 day that included two walks, three runs scored and a homerun.

Poindexter also played a major role in the victory in game two, going 2-for-5 with three RBI, including a two run double in the eighth. Megan Aldridge (Johnson City, Tenn.) was 1-for-4 with a run scored.

With the score tied 3-3 at the end of regulation, Poindexter’s double put the Lady Buffs up by two. Milligan pitcher Wise was able to hold Union to just one in the bottom of the eighth for the victory. Wise threw all eight innings, allowing four earned runs while striking out six to improve her record to 12-5 on the season.

Milligan will again compete in an AAC doubleheader on Saturday, April 14, against the Univ. of Va. at Wise at 1 p.m. in Wise, Va.